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by notaplumber 5y ago
Likely because the author doesn't care about that and are productivity focused. Besides, OpenBSD uses the same drivers as Linux, ported to the OpenBSD kernel. https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/ad8b1aa
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by notaplumber 5y ago
Although as mentioned in the article, this won't work on systems like *BSD, Solaris or macOS.
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by notaplumber 5y ago
> And while it is likely that dhclient will eventually be removed from OpenBSD Base, it will live on in Ports, where it will be available to those who desire to use it: To be clear, OpenBSD's dhclient is not ISC dhcp client, it is a
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by notaplumber 5y ago
It definitely should not have been, this is news related to OpenBSD, there are no portable versions of either daemon.
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by notaplumber 5y ago
I don't buy this. Some Acer laptops in the past have required that you set a Supervisor BIOS password in order to change the Secure Boot settings, but after you do that you can set the password to blank to clear it again.
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by notaplumber 5y ago
It's looking very much like it will, but even if that wasn't the case, it's already widely in use and available in OS libc's and easy to copy, and it has been since OpenBSD first introduced it over 20 years ago. I also b
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by notaplumber 5y ago
> strlcpy... it’s not standard so it doesn’t satisfy 5 either. It's a de facto standard supported on *BSD/macOS/Android/Linux(w/ musl libc) and a number of other commercial systems, it's also on track for s
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by notaplumber 5y ago
I unfortunately skimmed over this, isotopp's explanation helped clear things up in my head.
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by notaplumber 5y ago
Thanks for this part, I feel like this was a crucial piece of information I was missing. Also explains my observations about TRIM not being as important as people claim it is, the firmware on modern flash storage seems more than capable of
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by notaplumber 5y ago
> Because flash does not overwrite anything, ever. This is repeated multiple times in the article, and I refuse to believe it is true. If NVME/SSDs never overwrote anything, they would quickly run out of available blocks, especially
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by notaplumber 5y ago
This is HN, I'm sure people would appreciate hearing the details. Like how does this integrate with OpenBSD's existing audio/graphics stacks, do you plan to upstream your work? With it being OpenBSD, are there security implic
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by notaplumber 5y ago
> I modified the OpenBSD kernel for the raspberry pi with gaming related extensions, in such a way that when the game runs there is no latency and no stuttering. What does that even mean? What "gaming related extensions"?-- cou
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by notaplumber 5y ago
> "OpenBSD users: Hi Mark!" This is Mark Kettenis, who has despite comments made jokingly by marcan, been working with a few other OpenBSD developers to bring-up OpenBSD/arm64 on the Apple M1. At least on the Mac Mini the
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by notaplumber 5y ago
Why wouldn't it be true? It's not as if the source and images aren't available for you to look at for yourself. As for why BSD isn't more popular than Linux, well, that's a much bigger question. It could come down t
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by notaplumber 5y ago
EULAs are not legally binding in many jurisdictions.
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by notaplumber 5y ago
Perhaps that's true. From what I read it shipped in a non-working state (manuals were there, but not some utilities were not), and I recall Apple engineers came out on Twitter saying it was being worked on and included it post-launch i
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by notaplumber 5y ago
Why would Apple go through the effort of adding support for booting alternative OS's on M1 Macs and then stand in the way of implementing drivers for the hardware? That doesn't make a lot of sense, IMHO. Especially considering App
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by notaplumber 5y ago
Sure there are, it's called brcmfmac. If the AsahiLinux team hasn't already got it working, certainly Corellium did a few months ago in their much hyped public demo image. https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/u
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by notaplumber 5y ago
Because software patents should not be legal, and are not enforceable in many sane jurisdictions, e.g: Europe. I'd much rather stick with "archaic" but understandable licenses like BSD, over verbose licenses that intertwine U
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by notaplumber 5y ago
Can you setup Starlink without the app, i.e: no cell phone? I'm getting real tired of devices that have no management/setup UI of their own.
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by notaplumber 5y ago
All true, thanks for answering.
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by notaplumber 5y ago
Sure that's fair, just thought it was interesting to point out the progress they've been making, especially with their 50th release around the corner (6.9 is due May 1st), and M1 SoC support in pretty good shape OOTB. USB works, W
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by notaplumber 5y ago
OpenBSD has no equivalent to FreeBSD's support tiers, but arm64/aarch64 is supported with binary packages and syspatches today. https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html Amusing seeing people reacting here on HN to the A
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by notaplumber 6y ago
The problem is the actually often the opposite, in the real world many treat strncpy as if it behaves like strlcpy. Note that strlcpy is equivalent to: snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%s", string); strlcpy is on track for fut
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by notaplumber 6y ago
Linux arm64/Windows 10 ARM should be near native, minus graphics acceleration. x86 will be about as slow as you would expect with QEMU. Pretty slow. There is no hardware assisted virtualization for x86 on ARM.
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by notaplumber 6y ago
Specifically arm64 guests, otherwise it's just QEMU's TCG.
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by notaplumber 6y ago
It's not proprietary, 3-clause BSD licensed. It's part of the chromium project. I use it on OpenBSD.
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by notaplumber 6y ago
The built-in chrome PDF viewer PPAPI plugin is generally pretty decent and is at least sandboxed on most platforms. It handles larger documents a bit better than PDF.js.
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by notaplumber 6y ago
There are many legitimate reason for one to need to be able to print or copy text from a document. Enforcing an entirely optional "security mechanism" when there is no technical reason to at the expense of the users of the softwar
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by notaplumber 6y ago
Xpdf has a history of enforcing purely software DRM on PDFs for no logical reason, such as the disabling of copying text and printing from documents. The upstream was against OS distributions patching this silly DRM out. I don't know i

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